Ken Kutaragi to receive AIAS Lifetime Achievement Award

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Nov 26th 2007 at 7:30PM }

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, has chosen Ken 'Krazy' Kutaragi as the recipient of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Interactive Achievement Awards. The man behind that PlayStation thing (which we hear was really popular with you kids some years ago) will be honored on February 7th during a ceremony held at the Red Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, in conjunction with next year's D.I.C.E. Summit.

Though now retired (or "squeezed out" depending on who you ask), the former Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. president and CEO was instrumental in the creation and launch of the PlayStation brand, the importance of which cannot be overstated -- we'd be surprised (and disappointed) if you were reading this and haven't had some sort of PlayStation product pass through your hands. If we have to wonder what the gaming landscape would be like without Kutaragi's kontributions, we reckon he deserves a fancy trophy. At the very least, we'll get a great acceptance speech out of it.

[Thanks, ShortFuse]

Tags: AIAS, Awards, KenKutaragi

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)

SnapperDragon @ Nov 26th 2007 7:34PM

let the suck begin!

E.J. @ Nov 26th 2007 9:09PM

Show some respect.

He gladly worked two jobs to get this award.

Jack Tretton's willing to pay $2400 for it.

plyx @ Nov 26th 2007 9:10PM

Way to kick it off!

Josh Warner @ Nov 26th 2007 9:12PM

Never had anything PlayStation branded, myself. My PC crushed everything back when it was somewhat popular, and nowadays if I were to buy a console it would be a 360.

I haven't given Sony a penny in over a year, and I will not change that, um, ever. Nothing they can do will redeem them for XCP / MediaMax rootkits and bungling the design of the PS3, coupled with blatant lies about its capabilities (that a computer literate 8 year old would find equally obvious).

Boycott Sony. Do it. Do it now.

borland502 (SDF - Macross Ring) @ Nov 26th 2007 9:48PM

"Boycott Sony. Do it. Do it now."

Only one problem with that sentiment, my high minded activist. If I boycotted every corporation that acted like a dick through a greedy move...I think I'd be in a compound somewhere in Idaho with underage wives.

I tend to like PC games myself, but dismissing the success of the PS1 and PS2 for unrelated crimes is rather foolish. The fact that both Microsoft and Intel comprise monopolies doesn't make my experience with Starcraft, Half-life, etc. any less fun.

Take a good look at all your electronic gear my friend. Chances are, you are being fucked by one or more protective corporate schemes on each and every device.

Blast Processing Megadrive @ Nov 26th 2007 10:00PM

"High minded?" Don't you mean "hive minded?"

name123 @ Nov 26th 2007 11:21PM

@Josh Warner (Defender of the Oppressed)

If you refuse to buy stuff from any company run by an arrogant CEO, there's a word for you: Homeless.

But, maybe you have a point, tell you what, go live in box for a few years and I'll tell see if society gets better. RISE UP!!

ThornedVenom @ Nov 26th 2007 11:49PM

@borland

"...be in a compound somewhere in Idaho with underage wives."

"...with underage wives."

=> I fail to see the problem in that. XD (I kid, I kid... lolpun)

rTwelve @ Nov 27th 2007 1:05AM

I have a Xbox 360, want a Wii, and have no need for a PS3. After looking through these comments, and the one for the Orange Box, I feel that almost everyone here is completely lost it. And so I will use this lofty position in the comments to point something out: these are game systems. I use them to play games.

People whine about their Cell chips and their Wiimotes, and their IPTV or whatever MSDF pushes (I haven't seen much of them really), but I do not care.

I bought a 360 for Halo 3. Also, it connects to the Internet to allow me to play this game with my friends. This is what they call a "killer app", at least for me. Games like Oblivion, PGR, Geometry Wars, etc., that I like happen to be a plus. But this is my opinion. Your opinions and NEEDS AND WANTS vary. They are not what some loudmouth fanboy tells you they think is right.

I want a Wii for one game. That killer app is called Smash Bros. Brawl. Again, I happen to like the game and I will play my friends online. But I will use GCN controllers because I like them. I could care less about the Wiimote for this game. (Although, I found it highly satisfactory for Twilight Princess, which I'll get eventually. But I don't plan on bowling or skiing or boxing.) There are few other games I intend on getting for it, besides TP and make Battle Revolution. But that's about it.

As for the PS3, there are no games I found particularly interesting. That's not to say there aren't good games (Uncharted, etc.), but they do not interest me. None of the other features like Blu-ray, Home, or PSN appeal to me either. I do not value the strength of the Cell anymore than the CPU in the 360, nor the high definition over the Wii's 480p. This doesn't factor in my decision, but it may in yours.

There's a lot of people here that thinking their console is the country they live in, or their family name. They've gotten so obsessed they get paranoid reading every Joystiq article, ready to attack any bias they perceive because they worry it'll suddenly kill off their beloved console's sales. But these people don't realize that it's the MARKET that controls fates, that it's the opinions of the average masses that never even heard of Joystiq probably--not the individual opinion of you--that runs things.

Anyways, that's my two cents. I'm going back to delivering one-liners for major lulz, which SHOULD be the more obnxoious comments on this blog.

Marc Federico @ Nov 27th 2007 1:10AM

how many gamer points do u get for that achievement?

oh yea NONE cuz you work for sony who has no achievements. AND you got fired! loser.

Todd @ Nov 27th 2007 10:44AM

An award, huh? So... was nobody else available?

ulovemikeroch @ Nov 27th 2007 11:54PM

OHMYGOD MARC ACHIEVEMENTS LOL! HE DOESN'T GET ANY CAUSE THATS SO CLEVER AND THATS WORTH SPENDING 300 DOLLARS FOR! ACHIEVEMENTS LOL! Shut up and go die.

Negativecool @ Nov 26th 2007 7:37PM

Betcha somewhere in his acceptance speech he mentions his input on the design of the - "P eff swee"

Betcha!

name123 @ Nov 26th 2007 10:39PM

Probably, but I know what he should mention:

Xbox 24 million
PS2 120 million

The biggest software company in the world gets obliterated by a good (but not great) company.

Microsoft failed for 10 years to make the PC competitive with consoles (that's why DirectX was created). Then they gave up and produced the Xbox. Now it'll cost them another 10 years to realize they can't make consoles.

Microsoft is one of the most untalented companies in the world. The only type of people who go to work for a monopolistic company are wimpy, geeky, passive people who hate confrontation (ie competition). That's why all of their products are mediocre at best. They're called "losers" for a reason.

ukickmydog @ Nov 26th 2007 10:45PM

so are you an employee of microsoft? maybe ex?

Anticrawl @ Nov 27th 2007 12:03AM

A software company being beaten on the hardware playing field by a jack-of-all-trades? Quick, stop the presses, this is history in the making. By the way caucasian/hispanic people are better at baseball and african american people are better at basketball, so you know.

I can't wait to start my own business and spread myself so thin I can't turn a profit and slowly lose any ground I had in each division of my company, then curl up in a little ball in my corner, quietly slitting my wrists while I spew lies to assure my shareholders that those are indeed just tan-lines on my wrists and that I haven't given up all hope.

plyx @ Nov 27th 2007 12:59AM

Fernando posting that shit is blowing my mind.

Raikage (NDF - PK THUNDER RING) @ Nov 27th 2007 1:24AM

I still spell Konfusion with a "K"

Also Krazy:D

Anyone who can figure out the song reference will be my hero and get an internetz cookie....

deaftly @ Nov 27th 2007 7:39AM

"Really name123... I think I speak for everyone... shut the fuck up!

Really, go away... believe, no one, absoluting no one will miss you."

You have no idea how ironic that statement was Fernando.

Fernando Rocker @ Nov 26th 2007 7:37PM

I enjoyed the PS1, I enjoyed the PS2...

But was he thinking with the PS3? Was he high or something?

Noshino @ Nov 26th 2007 7:43PM

Fernando,

I still don't get how can you complain SO MUCH about a console that you don't even have nor want to have (implied by your comments)

Once you get one, you'll get what he was thinking....awesomeness (the price was a higher than before, but totally worth it)

gonk @ Nov 26th 2007 9:02PM

uhh, what? you must be on drugs too noshine

we complain about a console because it's not something we want. we want things. we want to want the ps3, but it's gotta change to be worth the cost to some of us

James @ Nov 26th 2007 9:12PM

I can do one better;

I liked my PS1 more than my N64, but didn't like the PS2 at all. No games interested me.

borland502 (SDF - Macross Ring) @ Nov 26th 2007 9:54PM

"But was he thinking with the PS3? Was he high or something?"

He over engineered it. Since he's an engineer at heart that's not surprising. Then when costs starting overrunning the project they had to hastily trim things.

It's not that he was high, but he had too much power this time around to make his visions come true. The PS3 is a good product in my biased opinion, but some better choices earlier on could have preserved the Blu Ray trojan without costing so damn much at first.

Tom @ Nov 26th 2007 10:07PM

Noshino,

Wow, I was always wondering the same thing about you good sir. How you can open your mouth about the 360 or Wii if you yourself don't own either one or want one. Touche Dipshit. At least there is something good to play on those systems, and I'm talking more then a few of the usually titles your kind spit out in a list.

borland502 (SDF - Macross Ring) @ Nov 26th 2007 10:10PM

"...your kind spit out in a list."

Racist.

Zeus the God @ Nov 26th 2007 10:41PM

He complains, because Sony fucked up with the PS3. His complaints are logical and within reason.

ps3 rocks! @ Nov 26th 2007 11:22PM

Crocker isn't it time for your pikachu love stories? I'm pretty sure it's way too late for a pussy like you too stay up past your bed time. Fucking trolls like you should understand.

AK @ Nov 26th 2007 11:19PM

"what was he thinking with the ps3?"
it is very simple, the ps2 was so bloody sucessful that they went and made an expensive machine, MS had heaps of money to make the xbox, which barely gave them any profit, so they made the 360, a much cheaper console, inferior in hardware. especially how there arent even any rubber guards in the disk drive... if the ps3 "fails" or comes 2nd or 3rd place in the long run, SCE will either be shut down, or forced to make an inferior console next time around that is easier for devs to use. meaning!? a more sucessful console according to you!